Richard Phelps writes for the Martin Center about flaws embedded within the academic peer review process. I recently submitted a manuscript to an education journal, a review essay of another…
Apparently, this is a real study published in a peer-reviewed academic journal by a medical physician in private practice.
Anthony Hennen of the Martin Center urges a reorientation in scientific research. In scientific research, new ideas have become harder to find. Innovation has fallen compared to 50 years ago.…
A scholarly paper released last week finds “No evidence of any systematic bias against manuscripts by women in the peer review process of 145 scholarly journals.” From the Abstract: This…
Michael Strain writes at Bloomberg that advocates of a $15 minimum wage ought to take another look at the research literature. Several Democratic presidential candidates explicitly support a $15 national…
Richard Phelps writes for the Martin Center about a little-known practice that prevents some academic research from reaching the public. The public relies on journalists to learn about and share…
John Staddon writes for the Martin Center about the complicated world of scientific publishing. Communication is essential to science. The aim of scientific publication is to convey new findings as…
Just another risible example of publish-or-perish nonsense.
John Staddon offers Martin Center readers part two of his assessment of the perils of academic peer review. [T]he emphasis in academia on publishing is misplaced. The number of publications,…
Katherine Timpf exposes at National Review Online another example of bizarre academic “research.” According to an academic article written by an Australian professor, small chairs in preschools are “problematic” because…
My theory is, the publish-or-perish world of academe makes social-justice scholars hunt for new things to denounce, and all that's left now are nice things like farmers' markets.
But it never seems to offend the activist left who pretend to care about such issue when their fellow travelers trivialize rape, genocide, racial supremacism, etc., by comparing them with…